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    Aftershocks
    Aftershocks
    Aftershocks
    Audiobook9 hours

    Aftershocks

    Written by Marko Kloos

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “A new series that promises to be just as engrossing [as Frontlines]…the action just as exciting, the science just as solid, the tension just as high. I gulped down the first book in a day, and I am already eager for the next one.” —George R. R. Martin

    Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. He’s not the only one.

    A naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground. And a young woman, thrust into responsibility as vice president of her family’s raw materials empire, faces a threat she never anticipated.

    Now, on the cusp of an explosive and wide-reaching insurrection, Aden plunges once again into the brutal life he longed to forget. He’s been on the wrong side of war before. But this time, the new enemy has yet to reveal themselves…or their dangerous endgame.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2019
    ISBN9781721356782
    Aftershocks
    Author

    Marko Kloos

    Marko Kloos is the author of two series of military science fiction, the Palladium Wars and the Frontlines, and is a member of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards consortium. Born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster, Marko was previously a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before deciding that he wasn’t cut out for anything except making stuff up for fun and profit. Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy—his first genre love ever since his youth, when he spent his allowance on German SF pulp serials. He likes bookstores, kind people, October in New England, fountain pens, and wristwatches. Marko resides at “Castle Frostbite” in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and roving pack of voracious dachshunds. For more information, visit www.markokloos.com.

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    • 5/5
      Despite having spent relatively little time in Germany in the course of my travels, I have spent a great deal of time, always profitably + enjoyably, reading German philosophers, listening to German classical composers, watching Germany’s footballers (Breitner, Rummenige, Rubesch, Litbarski, Matthäus, etc.), reading German SF (Perry Rhodan’s never-ending SF Series - Kloos’ novel even has a planet called Rhodia!, Eschbach’s “Die Haarteppichknüpfer”), 'getting to know' German women, and drinking with Germans. On top of that, any nation which can produce such excellent consumers of beer has to be a good one. Happy to know that Germany and German writers writing from abroad (Marko Kloos himself) are prospering and that the German locomotive is still pulling the euro + bringing other member states into line (although slower), albeit at the price of some pretty extreme subjection to discipline. But they are on the whole well-intentioned. I can speak from personal experience. It took decades until I was culturally assimilated by Germans (yes, there's "culture" in Germany; it is called "Wirtshaus-Kultur"; big beer mugs and women that present their boobs and decolletés nicely. What's there not to like?)“Afterschocks” is much better than Rhodan’S MilSF. The majority of military SF fails as science fiction. Future societies are portrayed as being substantially similar to current or past ones (in this case the plot heavily draws from Occupied Germany in WWI and WWII). The fictional tech is usually, again, similar to current tech except for producing bigger explosions (this doesn't apply to the Culture novels - they are not military SF to begin with). The majority of military SF also expresses a conservative desire to return to simpler times. The post-Cold War world, where enemies, allies & bystanders are difficult to tell apart & change places, is not the source for their plots. The vile relationship between commercial SF and the military-industrial complex is well covered in Thomas M. Disch's excellent survey "The Stuff Our Dreams Are Made Of" - where he covers the SF work of (amongst others) Newt Gingrich - a truly depressing experience, enlightened by the anecdote about the American general who demanded, on watching “The Empire Strikes Back”, that his weapon designers build him an army of AT-ATs - only to be told to finish watching the sequence as Luke Skywalker drew attention to their weak spot - string around the legs.Fortunately, good MilSF is “not” as you might seem to think, mindless, brainless, "shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out" as this Kloos’ novel amply proves. While there may be some works of that sort out there, the one I chose to look down upon in my (sometimes) mindless criticism of MilSF is not among them. This is my second Kloos’ novel, and it won’t be my last. Kloos deals with war (and with its aftermath) in a way that we get: it’s not just a parlour game; it is great exercise of the imagination to try to place oneself at a specific moment in history and consider what the people involved might have thought with the data they had, and what would have motivated them to make the choices they made, on which future generations would judge them. The novel’s conflict developed from the way Kloos built his system, in which the history of Palladium is an integral part of the world's technology, mainly for the manufacture of artificial gravity generators. With the resources of the system firmly under control, tensions with their neighbours are at a breaking point, leading to a war that kills tens of millions of people. “Aftershocks” is established after the enormous conflict of the whole system over commodities, namely the palladium. One of the protagonists of the story, Aden Robertson, was on the side of the losers and was released from a prisoner of war camp struggling with the atrocities experienced during the war. It’s quite smart on Kloos part to use a character who had to deal with the collapse of a system he had supported for two decades and had to find his identity later. Only a German could have written a book like this...Also on the plus side, in this novel we don’t have some of the Astronomy and Astrophysics “errors” Kloos made in the Frontline Series. Nothing takes me out of a story faster than factual errors in Physics...5 stars even allowing for the fact the novel ends “in the middle of nowhere”. What the hell!!

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    • 5/5
      ... This first book has me ready for the next
    • 5/5
      Great book and one of the best series I know.